Review of Suicide Squad (2016) by Skeptic303 — 19 Oct 2016

Suicide Squad was another highly anticipated superhero movie (alongside Batman v Superman, Deadpool, Captain America: Civil War and X-Men: Apocalypse) and, in short, it's about a group of bad-guys who are sent to defeat a threatening enemy. There's one catch though: This is seriously the most disappointing thing I've seen all year.

Let's begin with the trailers, which were tonally misleading, that excited everyone for this movie, including me. While watching the movie, it seems as if the studio was rushing to put this thing together. In fact, pretty much all the movie's problems can be linked to the hurried creation of this movie. I'll elaborate on the problems below.

The first 40 minutes is all exposition, but it is so clumsy, I could have sworn the movie should have started with the helicopter crashing. I would rather have scenes of the characters discussing their past and the time spent in maximum security rather than this extra long opening narration. The characters are near life-less with a tiny character arc that comes off as cliché more than anything else. I haven't even gotten to all the confusing plot points in this movie, but that's how poorly constructed it is.

Even with bits of humor, good acting, and some good action, one can only glimpse at the potential that this movie had to succeed. Everything went wrong way too fast, resulting in a sloppy mess that warrants a seal of expendability.